Barbed fence



(No Model.)

C. S. TREVITT & S. F. MOUCK.

BARBBD FENCE.

Patented June 11, 1889.

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UNITED )STATES PATENT Fricn.

CONSTANT S. TREVITT AND SOLOMON F. MOUOK, OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

BARBED FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,879, dated June 11,1889.

Application filed January 28, 1889. Serial No. 297,797. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, CONSTANT S. Tnnvirr and SOLOMON F. MOUOK, citizensof the United States of America, residing at Lincoln, in the county ofLancaster and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Barbed Fences, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to improvements in barbed fences, and the objectis to provide a barb for a fence which will not lacerate or severelyinjure the animal coming in contact therewith; and with this object inview our invention consists in a barb formed with a vertical axis andhaving the barbs curved at their junction with the axis to formsurfacebearings, and then struck at substantially right angles to theaxis in opposite directions on a horizontal plane, as hereinafterspecified. The ordinary barbs grasped by the strands or strips of thefence, because of their rigid connections, do not yield sufficiently toprevent the wounding or laceration of the animal. This we overcome byarranging the stem or shank of the barb in a vertical bearing with thecurved parts of the barbs to loosely rest on the edges of the supportingfence-strip, so as to freely rotate on the axis and curved surfacebearings when the barbs are pressed against from side direction,resulting in giving animals all necessary warning without unnecessaryinjury.

Ve have fully illustrated our invention in the accompanying drawings,wherein- Figure l is a side view of a strip or strand of fence havingour improved barbs inserted. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the barbsconnected to a strip or strand of fence. Fig. Sis a perspective of thebarb detached from the fence. Fig. at is a top plan view of the barb. isa side view of the barb.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the barb, composed of two wirestwisted together, as at l, to form a shank or axis. At the terminationsof the twisted shank the wires are struck down to -horizontality, curvedin opposite directions, as at 2 3, and from the curves the barbs orpoints are directed substantially as shown, the barbs at the respectiveends of the shank being ar- Fig. 5'

ranged substantially at right angles to each other, as seen in Fig. 4.of the drawings. The shank serves as an axis on which the barb turnswhen arranged in its bearings, and the curved parts constitute surfacebearings on the edges of the strips of the fence.

B designates the fence strip or strand. This strand is formed atdetermined distances with slits 4, the parts of which are formed inbearings for the barbs, the shanks of the barbs being arranged in theseformed bearings, as shown in Figs. l and 2 of the drawin gs.- Thesestrips are secured with their flat sides to the posts or supports, whicharrangement of the strips brings the axis of the barbs in a verticaldirection, so as to rotate whenever an obj ect presses against orcontacts with them.

The standard or shank of the barb may be of two or more wires twistedtogether with their ends formed and terminating as here.- toforedescribed, or the parts may be of one wire or rod of sui'iicient size tobe split at each end, and the split parts curved to form the surfacebearings and then struck outward to form the barbs.

The points of the barbs should be so bent that the two on one end shallpoint or stand in different directions from those on the opposite end,so that one barb or point at least shall at all times extend outwardfrom each side of the fence-strip.

Having thus described Our improvements and the mode of applying the sameso as to distinguish them from other inventions, we proceed toparticularly point out distinctly what we claim to be our invention, asfollows:

l. The improved fence barb herein. described, formed with an axialbearing l, curved surface bearings 2 3 at each end lof the axis,arranged on planes at right angles to the axis, and terminating in barbsstruck at right angles to each other, substantially as described.

2. The improved fence-barb A, consisting of two wires twisted togetherto form an axial bearing l, the four ends of the wires being formed intocurved bearing-surfaces 2 3, arranged on planes at right angles to theaxis and terminating iu barbs arranged at right IOO angles to eachother, substantially as deour hands in the presence of two nttestingscribed. witnesses.

3, The combinzitiolnwith the strands formed CONSTANT S. TREVITI.' withvertical bearings, of barbs composed of SOLOMON F. MOUCK. 5 wires havinga. twisted shank constituting a Attest :is to Constant S. lrevittzbearing o1` axis, curved surface bearings at A. G. HEYLMUN, the end ofthe shank, and terminating in E. C. DALLAS.- bfubs arranged at rightangles to each other, Attest :is to S. F. Monek: Substantially asspecified. S. LOUIS XVILLSON, 1o In. Witness whereof we have hereuntoSet XV. E. BAILIES.

